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367 So. 2d 1088

Docket No. 77-1287.

Lusk v. State

Bobby Earl LUSK, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided February 27, 1979.

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 1979-02-27

Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 1997

1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“[T]he revelation of the sound of one's voice”

quoted by 1 later decision, including 481 So. 2d 979 - State v. MacIas

Relies on United States v. Wade · United States v. Dionisio · Earley v. DiCenso

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1979-02-27

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¶1*1089 Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Kurt Marmar, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

¶2Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Margarita Esquiroz, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

¶3Before HENDRY and SCHWARTZ, JJ., and CHARLES CARROLL (Ret.), Associate Judge.

¶4SCHWARTZ, Judge.

¶5Rejecting the defendant Lusk's sole contention on appeal, we hold that the prosecutor's request that the defendant speak so that a witness then on the stand could identify his voice, was not an improper comment on an exercise of his constitutional right against self-incrimination. Although the request was made while the jury was present, and although Lusk did not himself testify, the cases cited by the defendant, e.g., Gordon v. State,104 So.2d 524 (Fla. 1958), have utterly no application to this situation. Lusk's fifth amendment rights were simply not involved at all, because the privilege of "silence" does not extend to nor include the furnishing of physical, non-testimonial evidence such as the revelation of the sound of one's voice. United States v. Dionisio,410 U.S. 1, 93 S.Ct. 764, 35 L.Ed.2d 67 (1973); United States v. Wade,388 U.S. 218, 87 S.Ct. 1926, 18 L.Ed.2d 1149 (1967); Parkin v. State,238 So.2d 817 (Fla. 1970), cert. denied, 401 U.S. 974, 91 S.Ct. 1189, 28 L.Ed.2d 322 (1971); Joseph v. State,316 So.2d 585 (Fla. 4th DCA 1975); Boyer v. State,182 So.2d 19 (Fla. 4th DCA 1966), cert. denied, 388 U.S. 913, 87 S.Ct. 2118, 18 L.Ed.2d 1353 (1967); Higgins v. Wainwright,424 F.2d 177 (5th Cir.1970), cert. denied, 400 U.S. 905, 91 S.Ct. 145, 27 L.Ed.2d 142 (1970); Springer v. State,372 N.E.2d 466, 472 (Ind. App. 1978); Doye v. State,16 Md. App. 511, 299 A.2d 117 (1973).

¶6Affirmed.

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